But that may also be a me thing because I get intimidated by questions like "Why do you write?" and I take ages to come up with something

Hahaha, same, I end up mulling over the prompts so much that I can't hope to respond within a reasonable timeframe, or writing an essay I don't have time for right at that moment 😂 I had to firmly tell myself the prompts were optional otherwise I wouldn't have left any reply at all on the checkins!!